2009 ALTIMA COUPE OF THE YEAR

[dangeris]

...i'm going to let some off you guys try it out at carlisle next year. you'll see!

I'm first up! I'll push your biatch car to the limit yo!

[adidas2go]

I retract my statement of your driving experience. I've never seen you mention anything about that.

anyone who's driven non lsd equipped FWD and lsd equipped FWD will say the same thing. its makes A WORLD of difference. when you race you push your car to the limit, and in the corners having an HLSD allows you to accelerate sooner, harded and better out of your corners. I'm suprised blake doesn't get that...obviously he never driven a fwd car with it and I'm guessing importroller too. hlsd is an extra option on most performance cars for a reason. its expensive to add to a fwd car and it WORKS.

i'm going to let some off you guys try it out at carlisle next year. you'll see!

I have driven a few LSD equipped FWD's. They are more fun, and they do have more grip. However, this all depends on keeping your wheels on the ground, having gobs of torque to under steer and getting out of a torque steer situation in the first place. I raced my coupe with the turbo on it. Unless you head into a sharp turn, whip the wheel, and hit the throttle, you really wont experience the torque steer with a valid suspension and rubber. Since you should be using a smooth inside, outside, inside pattern, this shouldn't be an issue.

Realistically, your worm gear type of LSD becomes ineffective on ice and slippery conditions. Which is what Canada is a lot of the time I imagine, so why did you go with that choice? By the way, who makes your helical?

At any rate, if you are nailing through turns with a suspension setup that sends you into understeer, then yes, your HLSD helps you control your wheel spin. Does that alone give your coupe a let up? No. You could have better tires, better weight ratio, and tighter suspension components.

I agree to disagree with your statement that you have the best tracking altima coupe in the world

[mcheddadi]

I retract my statement of your driving experience. I've never seen you mention anything about that.

Realistically, your worm gear type of LSD becomes ineffective on ice and slippery conditions. Which is what Canada is a lot of the time I imagine, so why did you go with that choice? By the way, who makes your helical?

it's the nissan HLSD that's in the old b15 SE-R sentras and optional in the b16 SpecV sentras and optional in the 04 maxima. and I got HLSD Specifically because of its advantages on ice and sliperry conditions. as soon as both wheels slips it act like an open diff giving me traction at at least one of the wheels without locking up. it's the best of both worlds. massive traction as long as one wheels has some and then open diff like recovering without anything locking up when all wheels are slipping and I'm heading for a ditch lol.

I agree to disagree with your statement that you have the best tracking altima coupe in the world

lol, ok hehe

[Importroller]

anyone who's driven non lsd equipped FWD and lsd equipped FWD will say the same thing. its makes A WORLD of difference. when you race you push your car to the limit, and in the corners having an HLSD allows you to accelerate sooner, harded and better out of your corners. I'm suprised blake doesn't get that...obviously he never driven a fwd car with it and I'm guessing importroller too. hlsd is an extra option on most performance cars for a reason. its expensive to add to a fwd car and it WORKS.

i'm going to let some off you guys try it out at carlisle next year. you'll see!

See, you never mentioned anything about you tracking your car before, so we are left to assume that you don't have any "real" experience in racing. Obviously that is not the case now that we know. And I have driven a few FWD cars with LSD. One of my favorites has been in a 02 5.5th gen maxima SE 6spd that i almost got instead of my 4th gen altima. But even with the HLSD, it was lacking some control. I will agree with Adidas that the rest of the suspension needs to be correctly dialed in and adjusted to really feel the benefits of the LSD when going into turns hard or exiting them hard. I may not keep this car, so I'm not looking to do the LSD swap for a little while unless I do decide to keep it.

[Rob.Vegan]

Do you guys mind if I jump in here

Mehdi didn't say his suspension was perfect, but I personally don't know of anyone besides maybe Loop who has done as much to the suspension. So with my limited knowledge of other Altima and Altima Coupe owners I would say it's safe to say Mehdi is near best in the suspension aspect of the Altima Coupes.

I remember him saying he got his B class license around the time the HLSD was finished and the coilovers were on.

[adidas2go]

it's the nissan HLSD that's in the old b15 SE-R sentras and optional in the b16 SpecV sentras and optional in the 04 maxima. and I got HLSD Specifically because of its advantages on ice and sliperry conditions. as soon as both wheels slips it act like an open diff giving me traction at at least one of the wheels without locking up. it's the best of both worlds. massive traction as long as one wheels has some and then open diff like recovering without anything locking up when all wheels are slipping and I'm heading for a ditch lol.

To my recollection, The HLSD is part of a class of geared LSD's used to sense torque on one of the half shafts of the drive ouput. Since the Geared LSD's are dependent on the torque applied and not the different the output shaft speeds, the differential wouldn't be adequate on snow and ice, considering the power goes to whatever wheel is slipping. On ice, both whichever wheel starts to slip first, is going to gain 100% of the power, and get you nowhere. Now, on the dry track it does its thing if dialed in correctly with the rest of the suspension.

Also Rob, I have everything he does, plus the STB's. You don't need a coil over kit if you get a matching set of sport struts and springs

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

See, you never mentioned anything about you tracking your car before, so we are left to assume that you don't have any "real" experience in racing. Obviously that is not the case now that we know.

he posted a thread of those pics here n said he got the license.......it was just a while ago thats all n u n blake dont post a tremendous ammount here so its understandable u guys didnt know lol

[mcheddadi]

Also Rob, I have everything he does, plus the STB's. You don't need a coil over kit if you get a matching set of sport struts and springs

maybe you don't need a coilover kit, but a properlly designed one is better than matching off the shelf parts since we don't have sport struts for the eibach yets.

On ice, both whichever wheel starts to slip first, is going to gain 100% of the power, and get you nowhere. Now, on the dry track it does its thing if dialed in correctly with the rest of the suspension.

If I understand correctly what you are saying, hum...its the opposite...HLSD transfers to the wheels that is NOT slipping...it's a TORSEN type of differential man!

and HLSD is the best for snow here's a vid of a torsen type equipped car in snow vs non HLSD equipped car.

please blake watch these two videos

(hlsd)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHbNX3fG ... z8x_g&NR=1

also having an HLSD allows you to do some pretty unique thing like active left foot braking. I do it all the times and it works crazy good. check this video it's very informative:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSAiRxmm0w

now you see where I'm comming from with my HLSD craze lol.please see them videos before you tell me that hlsd in snow is worthless (wth) and that it won't help that much for my fwd car (left foot braking among other things!!)

for the others that want to get in on the debate lol watch the vids first!!!

[adidas2go]

maybe you don't need a coilover kit, but a properlly designed one is better than matching off the shelf parts since we don't have sport struts for the eibach yets.

Eibach put struts on my car when they did the prototype.

Also, I was speaking off references like ice and when your wheel lifts off the ground in a sharp turn. Good videos though.

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

Eibach put struts on my car when they did the prototype.

Also, I was speaking off references like ice and when your wheel lifts off the ground in a sharp turn. Good videos though.

how come we don't have struts then ..... If u had em y didn't they make em 4 us

[adidas2go]

I'm not quite sure. Every time I asked them about it, they said they just used those sttuts on my car to see what strut would be best for the proline kit. They never produced it though. Maybe they didn't think the road capabilities.

[dangeris]

That's a lame excuse from Eibach. I had Tokico on my Acura CL and I woiuld buy them for the coupe if they had em.

I don't think Blake saw any of mcheddadi's posts of installing the HLSD or getting his race license as I think he was deployed at that time.

[DReed86]

I got to vote for my man Skysurfer....... cause he keeps it fresh with the white and black look

Looks duuuurrrrrrttttyyyy

[LongBeachCoupe]

Damn guys... why dont you tell me how you really feel lol!

We should have a "best new addition" for the best member who joined in 2009.

[mcheddadi]

Only two days left guys! if you didn't vote, now would be the time!

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

werd keep votin peoples

[Bmore-coupe]

werd keep votin peoples

Nope, Stop voting everyone!

[Bmore-coupe]

[Bmore-coupe]

I won.........wait what did I win?.............nothing

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

I won.........wait what did I win?.............nothing

the won the coupe of the year son lol

[Bmore-coupe]

the won the coupe of the year son lol

custom title?

[bembol]

Congrats!

custom title?

LOL, EDIT...

"2009's Altima Coupe of the Year" title.

Time to talk to mcheddadi.


Modified by bembol at 11:49 PM 1/1/2010

[93coupe]

Congrats!

"2008's Altima Coupe of the Year" title.

Time to talk to mcheddadi.

Why the hell would he be 2008's Altima coupe of the year?

[PHENOMenalVinyl]

Why the hell would he be 2008's Altima coupe of the year?

hahahaha i think he meant 2009 n i agree custom title no doubt

[Bmore-coupe]

hahahaha i think he meant 2009 n i agree custom title no doubt

[08coupedriver]

congrats on the honor lol we shoud make a poll, what should your prize be ?

Custom title FTW

[mcheddadi]

I won.........wait what did I win?.............nothing

sorry I was away, so yeah after carefully counting all the votes I can say that BMORE-COUPE IS THE WINRAR!!!!

YAY!!!! I'll go make a thread!! congrats man! you earned it!

[mcheddadi]

THREAD MADE:

http://forums.altimas.org/zero...-year

[qwerttrewqruby]

what kind on rims are these?

[mcheddadi]

what is time?